Ellen Gray

Television Critic

Ellen Gray is the television critic for the Daily News and the Inquirer, and has written about TV since 1994. Her mind will go blank if you ask her to name her favorite show, because she has so many, but she would love to hear about yours.

So it didn’t take long for some to wonder whether, if Price, accused of having crudely, and repeatedly, propositioned Man in the High Castle producer Isa Hackett, doesn’t come back, Good Girls Revolt might.

“No one has contacted me about revisiting Good Girls Revolt, although I’m always touched by the continued support by our fans,” Dana Calvo, the show’s Moorestown, N.J.-raised creator, said in a phone interview Friday.

Dana Calvo

In December, Calvo told me there had been a “brief discussion” after her pitch for a second season in which Price had wondered aloud, ” ‘What if they made it into a half-hour?’ I mean, talk about someone who just didn’t get our show. This is a grownup, hourlong drama.”

Even before Moore’s suspension, which followed days of reports on allegations of sexual harassment and assault against producer Harvey Weinstein, there was reason to question Price’s ability as a programmer.

Having a blind spot about 51 percent of the population might actually be bad business.

After Hulu became the first streaming programmer to win the Emmy for outstanding drama, for its adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon, which went home emptyhanded, had passed on the chance to bid on either that, or HBO’s Big Little Lies, another women-focused show that did very well at the Emmys.

Asked in August 2015, during a Television Critics Association session, if he’d taken into account the allegations of sexual abuse that have dogged Allen, he said, “I think you have to look at the whole picture but … our focus is on the fact that he is a great filmmaker and storyteller, and so we look forward to the show.”